Hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens enter the U.S. each year, and there are estimated to be between 10 million and 20 million illegal aliens living in the U.S.

Around three-quarters of Americans - Democrats, Republicans, and independents - oppose illegal immigration and want it to stop. However, the elites - GOP and Democratic Party - support it for their own reasons.

* Businesses. Includes manufacturers, growers, banks, and their advocacy groups.

* The Democratic Party. The Democratic leadership apparently sees illegal immigrants as a massive future voting bloc, and in addition that party is built on playing racial politics. Individual Democratic supporters may base their support on psychological factors. Others may do so out of petty corrupt grounds, such as those who employ illegal domestic labor.

* The GOP. While the GOP leadership will say that they support "immigration" in order to get the "Hispanic vote", the bottom line appears to be... the bottom line. Companies that profit off illegal labor donate to Republican politicians, and those politicians tend to do what is in the best interests of those companies.

* The media. Almost all newspapers and their reporters support illegal immigration. They do that through editorials and frequently by publishing false or biased news reports. The reasons appear to be based in part on leftwing ideology and in part due to business reasons. For instance, in some small towns the local newspaper may support illegal immigration because the town bosses profit off the practice. Larger newspapers may do something similar.

* Racial and leftwing groups. Includes groups such as the National Council of La Raza ("The Race"), MALDEF, the National Immigration Forum, and countless others. Many of those are funded by leftwing foundations and are not grassroots groups. For instance, the Ford Foundation has given MALDEF over $25 million since the latter's founding.

* Ideologues. Very few people support massive immigration out of mostly ideological reasons. However, some libertarians fall into this camp. This group could be ignored except for the fact that they are much more influential than just their numbers would indicate.

* Extremists. There are various people and groups who support and oppose massive immigration largely on racial grounds. All white supremacist groups oppose immigration or illegal immigration because of the race of those immigrating. On the other hand, various Hispanic or Chicano groups support massive illegal for the same reason.

* Churches. They want new parishioners, and they also seem unable to figure out that illegal immigration leads directly to worker abuse.

* Foreign governments. Immigrants from Mexico - a good part of them illegal aliens - send home over $20 billion per year. That helps prop up that government and helps them avoid reforms.

"They're just coming to work. While most are coming to work, some aren't. And, a good percentage of the world's population would come here if they could. We can't let everyone in, that's why we have laws. There's also the question of whether all that low-wage, low-skilled labor is healthy for our economy.

"There are jobs Americans won't do. In brief, this is a code phrase for, "illegal aliens are desperate and are willing to work low wage jobs under unsafe conditions." While desperate Americans will do any kind of work, most want higher wages and they also prefer using things like the proper safety equipment.

There's a "Hispanic Vote" Not all people of the same race or ethnic/linguistic group vote the same way. Poll after poll shows that not all Hispanics favor massive immigration, and in some cases their opinion is in line with non-Hispanics. For instance, Arizona's Proposition 200 passed with 56% of the vote, and a CNN exit poll shows that 47% of Latinos supported it. In addition, "voting your race" is an un-American concept and one that should not be encouraged. Further, in some cases politicians might say they're "going after the Hispanic vote" when in fact the real reason might be something else.

Nomenclature The correct legal term is "illegal alien". Many sources use the politically correct euphemism "undocumented", or even completely ignore the status of those they're discussing, simply calling them "immigrants". This is obviously a dishonest attempt to mislead.